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Anonymous  +  512765 Mon, 12 May 08 01:13 PM
a)       I haven’t spoken to him yet  - present perfect continuousb)       Did you go to the pub last night?  - past perfectc)       They’re living in Paris now  - simple present continuousd)       I didn’t know that I hadn’t locked the door  - past perfecte)       I’ve been thinking of leaving him for ages  - past perfect continuousf)         John Lennon was murdered by Mark Chapman  - past perfect

 

Grammar Geek  +  512773 Mon, 12 May 08 01:25 PM

Is the point of the exercise to label the tense, or to write the the sentence using the tense indicated?

All of your sentences are grammatical. Few of them match the tense indicated.

A continuous will have an "-ing."

A past perfect will have a "had."

A present perfect will have a "have"

Your final sentence is in the passive.

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these sentences were written and i have wrote the tenses...  are they correct?

Mister Micawber  +  512791 Mon, 12 May 08 01:56 PM
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I have struck out the incorrect ones:

a)       I haven’t spoken to him yet  - present perfect continuous
b)       Did you go to the pub last night?  - past perfect
c)      
They’re living in Paris now  - simple present continuous
d)       I didn’t know that I hadn’t locked the door  - past perfect
e)      
I’ve been thinking of leaving him for ages  - past perfect continuous
f)         John Lennon was murdered by Mark Chapman  - past perfect
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